Sunday, October 5, 2008

Obama and Ayers

The NYT article dismissing the relationship between Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is itself easily refuted. It is as if it was written by the Obama campaign. Too bad the writer didn't think to question any of the statements made.

1. "Their paths crossed sporadically." This would be a lot easier to prove or disprove if an Obama operative wasn't actively blocking access to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge documents. Why is Obama hiding what happened in this organization that was founded by Ayers and chaired by Obama? The organization funded millions to Ayers' favorite projects on education. It isn't credible that the two men didn't discuss it.

2. Why is there such an effort to show that Ayers has been rehabbed? Just because he is now accepted in Chicago society circles does not mean he has apologized for his terrorist activities.
In fact, he admits that his current acts are just a new way to achieve the same goals from his younger years. He believes that through indoctrination in the school system, students can be made to believe that America is racist and oppressive, and should be made to turn against their parents. Does Obama share this same radical goal? The NYT article goes to great length to not comment.

3. Why has Obama repeatedly lied about his relationship to Ayers? In several media interviews, he says that Ayers was someone who lived in his neighborhood, or that their children went to school together. The last statement is patently false - their children are too different in ages to have attended any school together. Ayers was the founder of an organization that Obama claims as one of his major accomplishments, and qualifications to be president. He spent six years as the chair. Why is he so coy about what their relationship was or is?

The media is working actively to keep this story under wraps. It is really much more important to know what Palin's parents think of their daughter running for VP. Who is Obama, and what in the heck did he do all those years in that bastion of ethics, Chicago?

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